“”California’s growing battery storage network has reached a major milestone after delivering more than 12,000 megawatts of electricity to the state’s grid, an amount roughly equal to the output of 12 large nuclear power plants. The record was quietly set in late March as battery systems supplied more than 40 percent of California’s electricity demand
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It’s a good article. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/97-battery-recycling-yield-us-facility-turns-old-lithium-devices-into-new-energy-systems?utm_source=facebook%2Cinstagram%2Clinkedin%2Ctwitter&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMHJZdjbGNrAwchlWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEezQp2WjbKT1uD0Tb5iS3tyEEpA3Ap4mpcw2vI4xdwGcDi0juYhkxqynS8cEg_aem_o0I0NsmDrms0HakPlfVCIA
This drone can charge straight from the power lines. A prototype built by students in Denmark. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2827561450966396/?mibextid=9drbnH
A short video that says they won’t go to the landfill. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1199773171098373?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Sam Electric Viking’s 10.7 min video tells about CATL’s 600 thousand mile battery.
It looks like this supercapacitor could quickly charge and discharge, thus reducing the cycles on the EV battery. https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/ev-batteries-could-last-much-longer-thanks-to-new-capacitor-with-19-times-power-density-that-scientists-created-by-mistake
California’s Solar market is a battery market. Interesting article. It says that battery storage is to be used as long term storage. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/14/californias-solar-market-is-now-a-battery-market/
I’m sitting on the grass in the back yard and it’s chilly, but the sunlight feels really good on my back. I can hear some birds up in the trees, I’m waiting to see if they’ll come down and eat some birdseed. I started thinking about a way to watch them up there. What I
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The manufacturing of Electric Vehicles and grid scale storage are constrained by the amounts of batteries that can be supplied by the battery makers around the world. The early Tesla EVs used the ubiquitous 18650 lithium ion cells, something like 6000 per vehicle. In order to reduce costs and weight Tesla went to the larger
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